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This paper analyzes the lack of civic engagement in local government decision-making and the problems that result from it. I consider one explanation as viewed through public choice theory: dominant special interest groups capture local governments for their own private interests. Thus, average...
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two decades, been the scene of a largely unnoticed experiment in land-use federalism. In 1986, to protect the Gorge from … relationships that have revolutionized land-use practices in the Gorge and continue to generate controversy. A considerable amount …
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, explains the environmental and economic problems with a congressional bill that would have transferred federal Bureau of Land … lands," including the Oregon and California Lands Act of 1937, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the Endangered …
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This article argues that New York municipalities should integrate land banks into the tax enforcement process to break … properties to local land banks, municipalities can generate an important funding source that will help cover land banks …' operations while simultaneously maximizing land banks' ability to reinvest lien proceeds and equity into redeveloping or …
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A wide variety of policies have spatially concentrated costs and diffuse benefits. In many cases, such policies exhibit severe governance failures. We present a formal model to investigate how these policy failures relate to institutions for resident participation. In the model, residents of two...
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Worldwide, commercial drone services are being tested and permitted. Progress in the United States has been slow, in part because of a lack of clarity about the federal and state roles over drones and airspace management. To jumpstart the drone industry, states can create drone highways—...
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quantity of affordable housing in white jurisdictions. Drawing on census data and land regulation indicators compiled by …
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The saga of Columbia Basin salmon recovery is one of the foremost natural resource restoration efforts in the United States over the last quarter-century. Although development of the world's largest integrated hydroelectric system crippled the Columbia's salmon runs, Congress declared in 1980...
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-based interest groups pressure federal land managers to maintain historic levels of grazing or timber harvest levels in low …-use decisionmaking because it produces unbalanced decisions from captured land managers who serve factional interests, and thus undermine … the long-term sustainability of public land resources. Instead, Congress should redefine a new concept of multiple …
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cross-border projects concerning the land use planning were started in the western part of Switzerland during the past few …
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